This year we finished a very cool circular staircase in a beautiful home. Sometimes our clients themselves are builders and have done most of the work on either finding the builders, plumbers and all the other aspects that go into erecting a home, but look for other contractors for the parts (like stairs) that need help making their dream home complete. Here’s where we come in. We worked with our client who found us through our website, met up and went over the prints he had previously drawn up. Inspiration was gathered from a previous elliptical design we did. After some adjustments to the layout to make sure the stairs would fit the house properly, he made the selections based on the wood that was already selected for the flooring. When I spoke with the owner he mentioned that he had spoken with a couple different companies and one had wanted to put a pillar in to help support an area of the balcony area of the landing, which the homeowner was eager to avoid. After seeing the house in person I can understand why. The open floor plan really leads the eye’s focus on the view. The stairs we designed for him helped complement this aesthetic, keeping the floor plan open using a steel piece to help secure the foundation. He took our recommendations on the balusters and newels, wanting something simple, leading the stairs to speak for themselves.
The stairs were built in-shop, delivered on-site and installed. Once the sheet rock was complete we got the go ahead on the railing install, (contractor: Steve McCullar) putting all the pieces together creating this beautifully unique and open staircase.
The Homeowner is pleased with the style, simplicity and elegance of the stairs and looks forward to utilizing the balcony area as a relaxing place to hang out and look out at the view this house provides over Lake Keowee.
Our 2024 Year started, hitting the ground running. We had a 15% growth last year and expect to keep that pace. At the end of 2023 we started working with metals in house and have made this a permanent installment in our business. Adding metal in house gives us lead on the quality of our production as well as brings more to offer our customers. There will be more on our metal addition to come. So far this year we have gotten some great properties to show off our quality and wide options of style. Our social media is frequently updated with information for everyone to learn about stair parts as well as see our finished products, sometimes featuring the different stages of the builds as well. We attended the International Builders Show this year (IBS) and posted the following, “IBS-The @intlbuildersshow put on by @homebuilders had over 76,000 people turn out, the biggest show in 15 years, which started 2009. It’s got new product! Demos! Experts and connections! Super cool displays and something for everyone, including books and information to inspire our youth! Many panels on up and coming products and info made for a good trip and inspiring informative event for us!! Located in Vegas this year, it’s a convention we always look forward to and they did not disappoint! Looking forward to 2025!” Pictures can be found on our Instagram @trademark_stairs as well as our Facebook page www.facebook.com/TrademarkStairs/ We have already gone live with a few of our updates on our website, but will have the site going with updated gallery pictures, a stair design tool and bios about all of us here at Trademark, including the fur babies. We are looking into wood and metal tradeshows to both attend and have a booth at this year, so keep an eye out for that! There is so much for Trademark Stairs to look forward to this year and we expect another 15% growth year as well as the start of some new projects our company is excited to explore.
